Note: his WWI Draft Registration card has his middle name spelled Augusta, family trees on Ancestry.com spell it Augustus. It lists his nearest relative as Henry Palmer Bishop.
Found in The State 14 August 1961: Earl A. Bishop, 64, of 3805 Emerson Road, Columbia, died at the Baptist Hospital early Sunday morning after an illness of several years. He was born January 1, 1897 in Berkeley County but lived here most of his life, where he was a textile worker. He was a member of the Faith Baptist church on Barnwell Street in Columbia. Mr. Bishop is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Mae Roberts Bishop of Columbia, five children by a former marriage to Mrs. Neomi McGill Bishop, Mrs. Willard (Mattie) Ferrell of West Columbia, James E. Bishop of Columbia, Ralph O. Bishop of West Columbia and Robert P. and Henry K. Bishop, both of the U. S. Navy; seven sisters, Mrs. Lula Brunson and Mrs. Mary Cumbee, both of Charleston, Mrs. Mae Steele of Alaska, Mrs. Rozina Morris of Florida, Mrs. Stella Brunson of Jamestown, Mrs. Olive Phillips of Cordsville and Mrs. Lucille Northrett of Newark, N. J.; four brothers, Houston Bishop of Walterboro, Jessie Bishop of Newberry, Aiken Bishop of Charleston and Edward Bishop of California, and several nieces and nephews...
Found in The State 15 August 1961: Funeral services for Earl A. Bishop, 64, will be conducted at 4 o'clock this afternoon from the Thompson Funeral Home by the Rev. John B. Gardner. Burial will be in the Olympia Cemetery...Active pallbearers will be Ernest Bishop, Albert Bishop, Wayne McKnight, Jackie Litshfield, LaVon Gaskins and David Bishop. Honorary pallbearers will be Robert Murray, W. H. Graves, G. W. Hatchell, Garvin Williams, B. D. Hutto, James Warren and J. L. Ross...
Found in The State 14 August 1961: Earl A. Bishop, 64, of 3805 Emerson Road, Columbia, died at the Baptist Hospital early Sunday morning after an illness of several years. He was born January 1, 1897 in Berkeley County but lived here most of his life, where he was a textile worker. He was a member of the Faith Baptist church on Barnwell Street in Columbia. Mr. Bishop is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Mae Roberts Bishop of Columbia, five children by a former marriage to Mrs. Neomi McGill Bishop, Mrs. Willard (Mattie) Ferrell of West Columbia, James E. Bishop of Columbia, Ralph O. Bishop of West Columbia and Robert P. and Henry K. Bishop, both of the U. S. Navy; seven sisters, Mrs. Lula Brunson and Mrs. Mary Cumbee, both of Charleston, Mrs. Mae Steele of Alaska, Mrs. Rozina Morris of Florida, Mrs. Stella Brunson of Jamestown, Mrs. Olive Phillips of Cordsville and Mrs. Lucille Northrett of Newark, N. J.; four brothers, Houston Bishop of Walterboro, Jessie Bishop of Newberry, Aiken Bishop of Charleston and Edward Bishop of California, and several nieces and nephews...
Found in The State 15 August 1961: Funeral services for Earl A. Bishop, 64, will be conducted at 4 o'clock this afternoon from the Thompson Funeral Home by the Rev. John B. Gardner. Burial will be in the Olympia Cemetery...Active pallbearers will be Ernest Bishop, Albert Bishop, Wayne McKnight, Jackie Litshfield, LaVon Gaskins and David Bishop. Honorary pallbearers will be Robert Murray, W. H. Graves, G. W. Hatchell, Garvin Williams, B. D. Hutto, James Warren and J. L. Ross...
Note: his WWI Draft Registration card has his middle name spelled Augusta, family trees on Ancestry.com spell it Augustus. It lists his nearest relative as Henry Palmer Bishop.
Found in The State 14 August 1961: Earl A. Bishop, 64, of 3805 Emerson Road, Columbia, died at the Baptist Hospital early Sunday morning after an illness of several years. He was born January 1, 1897 in Berkeley County but lived here most of his life, where he was a textile worker. He was a member of the Faith Baptist church on Barnwell Street in Columbia. Mr. Bishop is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Mae Roberts Bishop of Columbia, five children by a former marriage to Mrs. Neomi McGill Bishop, Mrs. Willard (Mattie) Ferrell of West Columbia, James E. Bishop of Columbia, Ralph O. Bishop of West Columbia and Robert P. and Henry K. Bishop, both of the U. S. Navy; seven sisters, Mrs. Lula Brunson and Mrs. Mary Cumbee, both of Charleston, Mrs. Mae Steele of Alaska, Mrs. Rozina Morris of Florida, Mrs. Stella Brunson of Jamestown, Mrs. Olive Phillips of Cordsville and Mrs. Lucille Northrett of Newark, N. J.; four brothers, Houston Bishop of Walterboro, Jessie Bishop of Newberry, Aiken Bishop of Charleston and Edward Bishop of California, and several nieces and nephews...
Found in The State 15 August 1961: Funeral services for Earl A. Bishop, 64, will be conducted at 4 o'clock this afternoon from the Thompson Funeral Home by the Rev. John B. Gardner. Burial will be in the Olympia Cemetery...Active pallbearers will be Ernest Bishop, Albert Bishop, Wayne McKnight, Jackie Litshfield, LaVon Gaskins and David Bishop. Honorary pallbearers will be Robert Murray, W. H. Graves, G. W. Hatchell, Garvin Williams, B. D. Hutto, James Warren and J. L. Ross...
Found in The State 14 August 1961: Earl A. Bishop, 64, of 3805 Emerson Road, Columbia, died at the Baptist Hospital early Sunday morning after an illness of several years. He was born January 1, 1897 in Berkeley County but lived here most of his life, where he was a textile worker. He was a member of the Faith Baptist church on Barnwell Street in Columbia. Mr. Bishop is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Mae Roberts Bishop of Columbia, five children by a former marriage to Mrs. Neomi McGill Bishop, Mrs. Willard (Mattie) Ferrell of West Columbia, James E. Bishop of Columbia, Ralph O. Bishop of West Columbia and Robert P. and Henry K. Bishop, both of the U. S. Navy; seven sisters, Mrs. Lula Brunson and Mrs. Mary Cumbee, both of Charleston, Mrs. Mae Steele of Alaska, Mrs. Rozina Morris of Florida, Mrs. Stella Brunson of Jamestown, Mrs. Olive Phillips of Cordsville and Mrs. Lucille Northrett of Newark, N. J.; four brothers, Houston Bishop of Walterboro, Jessie Bishop of Newberry, Aiken Bishop of Charleston and Edward Bishop of California, and several nieces and nephews...
Found in The State 15 August 1961: Funeral services for Earl A. Bishop, 64, will be conducted at 4 o'clock this afternoon from the Thompson Funeral Home by the Rev. John B. Gardner. Burial will be in the Olympia Cemetery...Active pallbearers will be Ernest Bishop, Albert Bishop, Wayne McKnight, Jackie Litshfield, LaVon Gaskins and David Bishop. Honorary pallbearers will be Robert Murray, W. H. Graves, G. W. Hatchell, Garvin Williams, B. D. Hutto, James Warren and J. L. Ross...
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Transcribed from a notebook found in the Richland County Library titled, Olympia Cemetery Listing (local history room).
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